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List of Lord Lieutenants of the region of Yorkshire
This is a list of people who served as Lord Lieutenant of Yorkshire .
List of Lord Lieutenants
Lord Lieutenant
Portrait
Birth
Death
Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon 1586–1595
1536Ashby-de-la-Zouch [ 1] son of Francis Hastings, 2nd Earl of Huntingdon and Katherine Pole
14 December 1595York aged 59
Thomas Cecil, 2nd Baron Burghley 1599–1603
5 May 1542Cambridge son of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley and Mary Cheke
8 February 1623 London aged 81
Edmund Sheffield, 3rd Baron Sheffield 1603–1619
7 December 1565Oxford son of John Sheffield, 2nd Baron Sheffield of Butterwick and Douglas Howard
6 October 1646 aged 80
Emanuel Scrope, 1st Earl of Sunderland 1619–1628
1 August 1584Hunsdon son of Thomas Scrope, 10th Baron Scrope of Bolton and Philadelphia Carey
30 May 1630 aged 46
Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford 1628–1641
13 April 1593 London son of William Wentworth of Wentworth Woodhouse and Anne Atkins
12 May 1641Tower Hill aged 48
Thomas Savile, 1st Viscount Savile 1641
14 September 1591
1658 aged 67
Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex 1641–1642
11 January 1591 son of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex and Frances Walsingham
14 September 1646 aged 55
From 1642 until 1660 the position was vacant, however after the Restoration , a separate lieutenant was appointed for each of the three ridings; see Lord Lieutenant of the East Riding of Yorkshire , Lord Lieutenant of the North Riding of Yorkshire and Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire .
References
J.C. Sainty (1970). "Lieutenancies of Counties, 1585–1642". Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research (Special Supplement No. 8): 37.
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